3-020-431 - British Pathe Ltd/Heritage Images

German Battleships Being Salvaged in Scapa Flow, 1926. 'German battleships being salvaged after their scuttling...at the end of the [First World] War...these helpless monsters seemed to symbolise the country of their origin, bogged down, leaking at every pore, covered in weed, barnacles and obnoxious growths. Yet somehow strangely menacing'. From "Time to Remember 1926 - Short Sharp Shower"- Reel 1; a documentary about 1926 - General Strike, international politics, dancing, weather and record breaking feats.